January 16 » The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
August 8 » The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
September 27 » The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
November 5 » Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
November 8 » Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
January 19 » San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
March 10 » Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
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